Registration open: new Master Class by David Tolin on Hoarding
On May 27 a Karolinska OCD Master Class will be held: Buried in Treasures: The Nature and Treatment of Hoarding Disorder by Dr David Tolin, Director, The Institute of Living and Adjunct Associate...
View ArticleArtikelserie om OCD i SvD
En ny artikelserie om OCD startar i Svenska Dagbladet idag. Läs en intervju med Christian Rück om tvång här. Bland annat tas de lovande resultaten av internetbehandling för OCD upp.
View ArticleTvångssyndrom.se: nytt
Vår informationssida tvångssyndrom.se riktad till allmänheten om Tvångsyndrom (OCD) och likande tillstånd har uppdaterats. Kolla in!
View ArticleNy studie för dysmorfofobi (BDD)
Det är inte ovanligt att må dåligt över sitt utseende, men ibland kan man bli så upptagen vid ett upplevt fel att det leder till ångest och nedsatt förmåga att arbeta eller umgås. En person med...
View ArticleFabian Lenhard is offically a PhD student!
Fabian Lenhard Fabian Lenhard passed his admission seminar to become a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet. Congrats! His main supervisor is Eva Serlachius, David Mataix-Cols and Christian Rück are...
View ArticleWhat we look like
For the first time we managed to take a picture of all of us together. From left: Fabian Lenhard, Volen Ivanov, Christian Rück, Evelyn Andersson, Johan Larsson, Erik Andersson, Jesper Enander, Diana...
View ArticleThird award strike for Rucklab!
Last night, Rucklab students Gustaf Brander and Per Söderholm won the Swedish Association for Behavior Therapy award for “best master thesis” at the annual meeting in Uppsala. Gustaf and Per are...
View ArticleVolen Ivanov i SvD mfl om patologiskt samlande /hoarding
Volen Ivanov i SvD mfl om patologiskt samlande /hoarding Our own Volen Ivanov in various Swedish newpapers on Hoarding coming to DSM 5. Nice that the work done by Swedish housing organisation HSB is...
View ArticleDa bomb: Professor David Mataix-Cols recruited to Karolinska
One of the leading OCD researchers, Professor David Mataix-Cols, now at King’s College London will be moving to Karolinska Institutet in November this year to join forces with us. Very welcome, David!
View ArticleOur d-cycloserine study in OCD going forward
Pictures from yesterdays meeting for everyone involved in our study of d-cycloserine in OCD, our biggest undertaking so far.
View ArticleThe Bror Gadelius memorial fund awards Erik Andersson grant
Erik Andersson has been awarded a grant from the Bror Gadelius memorial fund for our D-cycloserine study in OCD. Who was Bror Gadelius? Well, for someone working on a thesis on OCD like Erik Andersson...
View ArticleOpening cermony for our new freezer
Blue heart = OK. Alexandra Tylec, Monica Hellberg and Nils Lindefors. Our new Thermo Scientific Formas 88000 series freezer entered service yesterday with Prof Nils Lindefors cutting the red ribbon....
View ArticleRücklab visits University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
href=”http://rucklab.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/ucsd-biomed1.jpg”> Rücklab’s Evelyn Andersson visited Department of Psychiatry at UCSD last week who hosts prominent researchers such as prof....
View ArticleNew publication in JAMA Psychiatry just out on Family Clustering in OCD
A new paper is out using Swedish multigenerational register data showing that the risk for OCD among relatives of OCD probands increased proportionally to the degree of genetic relatedness. Also,...
View ArticleDSM 5 in our hands
Jesper Enander likes the changes to the BDD criteria. Historic day. #DSM5 just landed in the mail.
View ArticleRücklab’s Volen Ivanov in NYC
Volen posing outside Columbia Univeristy,New York State Psychiatric Institute, encouraging you not to smoke This week, Volen Ivanov vistited Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute to...
View ArticleNew publication: Why does CBT make someone change?
In a new study that is just out in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, researchers led by Brjánn Ljótsson studied how different possible mechanisms of CBT contributed to its efficacy in...
View ArticleNew podcast!
In this episode Dr. Rodriguez from Columbia University discusses her research and takes us through how Hoarding Disorder could lead to serious housing problems and how clinicians and others involved...
View ArticlePodcast on Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
Summer has arrived which for many means vacation time. Hopefully this also entails greater possibilites for listening to our podcasts. In this episode Dr. Anthony Pinto provides a very clear overview...
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